“…While marginalized areas were seen in Riobamba, both spatially and socioeconomically speaking or subordinate to capitalist interests, in Cuenca, on the other hand, and in a context of family-based agriculture affected by previous migration, the resilience of the peri urban rural areas could be seen, having been driven by public institutions instilling new rural practices, which, at the same time, produced a redefinition of the countrycity relationships. It is worth stating that the promotion of farming collectives, understood as a generic notion which refers to a group of individuals who cooperate through common action to defend, organize or value their land (Raimbert y Rebaï, 2017), constituted a key factor to favor new socioeconomic approaches between farmers, on one hand, and between farmers and urban consumers, on the other. On promoting the training of farmer groups, with the idea of providing environmental services and agroecological producer associations, for the provincial urban supply of clean cheaper products, the Cuencan public authorities favor new socioeconomic approaches, which correspond to the fact that players belong to the same networks, share the same references and the same knowledge, and are organized based on common goals (Torre and Beuret, 2012), making the creation of new solidarities between Cuenca and its rural periphery possible.…”